As the United States Navy’s primary special operations force it is imperative that they are highly functional in any terrain as they carry out the unconventional warfare missions that they are tasked with.

This also showed how the command within Naval Special Warfare Group 3 might have been training for a domain different from that of recent history (Iraq, Afghanistan).

As stated, “after sixteen years of focusing predominantly on the terrain of Iraq and Afghanistan, they are expanding their training to be ready for other, more varied environments to be prepared for the missions to come”.

According to Stavros Atlamazoglou of SOFREP, the Naval Special Warfare Command had decided to reactivate SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 2 (SDVT-2) stationed on the East Coast.

[9] SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams offered the Naval Special Warfare Community a unique opportunity to approach a designated target with minimal detection.

According to Targeted News Service,[10] this has been done over the past several years and recipient countries include Brazil, Panama, Colombia, and Peru.

The table of equipment for the unit included three operational SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV) and a Dry Deck Shelter (DDS).

Each SDV Task Unit operates independently from a host submarine in the conduct of Naval Special Warfare missions.

[14] SDVT-2 was merged into SDVT-1, although the Navy continued to operate a small Dry Deck Shelter establishment at Little Creek, albeit under the command of SDVT-1.

Current non-classified methods of deployment include the SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) from Dry Deck Shelters on submarines.

[4][5] The SDV program dates back to World War II, when various sleds and vehicles developed for use by the Underwater Demolition Teams.